This Dakota-English dictionary was sponsored by the Minnesota Historical Society when it was first published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1852

Kamloopa explores the fearless love and passion of Indigenous women reconnecting with their homelands

Grandmother and Granddaughter offer Čhaŋsása (Tobacco) to honor each plant in their path

Both the European colonizers and Americans recognized the power-encoding symbolism of Native kinship discourse

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The Wayfinder stories This Dakota-English dictionary was sponsored"An epic of extraordinary abundance . . . modern and mythological. . . wondrous enough to endure." The Wall Street Journal "A powerful and original epic . . . Deadly politics, tragic romance and dangerous sea journeys keep the drama at a spirited boil." The New York Times A historical epic about a girl from a remote Tongan island who becomes her people's queen. Talking corpses, poetic parrots, and a fan that wafts the breath of life this is the world